149 Quotations with Excess.
- 1. Alexander Hamilton: A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
- 2. Charles Churchill: The best things carried to excess are wrong.
- 3. Charles Dickens: Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from m ...
- 4. Voltaire: Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- 5. Cicero: Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- 6. John Keats: Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike t ...
- 7. Josh Billings: As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- 8. Kahlil Gibran: In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth ...
- 9. P. J. O'Rourke: The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a ...
- 10. Plato: Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the g ...
- 11. W. Somerset Maugham: Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the de ...
- 12. George Eliot: Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 15. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: OVEREAT, v. To dine.
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- 17. Ambrose Bierce: REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.
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- 18. Lazarus Long: Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is ...
- 19. William Shakespeare: If music be the food of love, play on;
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- 20. George F. Will: Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many Ameri ...
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